At a spirited Commencement ceremony, the Class of 2026 is urged to 'run toward the hardest problems'
'Run toward the hardest problems,' said Lisa Su '90, SM '91, PhD '94, the chair and CEO of semiconductor powerhouse Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) and the featured Commencement speaker at today's OneMIT ceremony. 'Hard problems really teach you what you're capable of.' Su's career as one of the world's leading technology executives has long been intertwined with MIT. She holds three degrees in electrical engineering from the Institute, along with another distinction: Building 12, home of the MIT.nano facility, was named after her in 2022. A central theme of Su's address involved learning by taking on difficult challenges. At MIT, as she put it, she acquired 'not the confidence that I would always know the answer, but the confidence that even when I didn't know the answer, I could figure it out.' Speaking before a large and appreciative audience in MIT's Killian Court, Su also urged MIT's new class of graduates to lead purposeful lives, with a sense of the greater good and an eye...
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